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ISuckAtCompute

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Registered: 2025-03-01

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] Changing mouse poll rate broke my Arch setup

Hi everyone,

First time posting. Have been with Arch for little over a week. Was proud of myself fixing most if not all random issues and bugs or making something work.

When playing games I noticed that after a while games would start stuttering during mouse movement. Figured it may be due to the polling rate, which is 1000. Used the info from arch wiki.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mouse_polling_rate

Changed it using modprobe -r usbhid && modprobe usbhid mousepoll=4 and according to warning I had no control of my mouse and keyboard. Reconnected both. Rebooted and now it fails to boot my OS.

My secondary NVME ssds fail to mount.

Tried to use arch install media. Chroot into my root/boot partition. Reinstall both linux-firmware and headers but to no avail.

Modprobe usbhid gives me that no such module exists. (FATAL error)

What else can I try to fix my Arch?

Last edited by ISuckAtCompute (2025-03-03 14:38:25)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,164

Re: [SOLVED] Changing mouse poll rate broke my Arch setup

Its incredibly unlikely that these params and your issues are related. It sounds more likely you updated the kernel but didn't have /boot mounted and are currently not booting the correct kernel.  Assuming you can boot the system in some form what outputs do you get from

uname -a
pacman -Q linux 
sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

ISuckAtCompute

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Registered: 2025-03-01

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Changing mouse poll rate broke my Arch setup

Ok, you were right.

I was away for a couple of days, so had some time to think.

Turns out the issue was very simple (as always). Two NVME's that I used with Windows previously for data storage, during one of my boots just decided to become "dirty" and stopped booting the OS entirely, even though both root/boot are on separate partitions in a completely different drive..

Adding .nofail in fstab via emergency mode using nano solved the problem instantly.

Great. Now I can go troubleshoot the issue with poll rate

Last edited by ISuckAtCompute (2025-03-03 14:39:12)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,164

Re: [SOLVED] Changing mouse poll rate broke my Arch setup

Make sure you run a chkdsk from Windows on the affected drives/partitions and always make sure to power down "normally" and properly (e.g. don't make a habit of quickening the shutdown time by holding the power button)